Bullets flew at a Brooklyn birthday party early Sunday, killing an 18-year-old woman and wounding two other revelers, police said.

Witnesses said a fight broke out in front of the small Coney Island home where the bash was held, and a man started shooting just before 2 a.m., police said.

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The teenager was hit in the neck and died instantly.

"That was my friend and I love her," said tearful E'njoli Murphy, 22. "I saw them pull a sheet over her. It's sad. It's just sad."

Friends said the victim, a recent immigrant from Argentina who graduated from John Dewey High School, had been baby-sitting for the woman who hosted the party.

The Daily News is withholding the teen's name because investigators have not yet been able to notify her father, who also moved to the United States.

Joseph Fonseca, 34, saw the teenager crumple to the driveway in front of the small Neptune Ave. home just before he was shot himself, said his mother, who visited her recuperating son at Lutheran Medical Center.

"He said he tried to hide," Fonseca's mother said, adding that he told her he did not recognize the gunman, "but they were still shooting. He tried to run."

A 22-year-old woman was also wounded. She and Fonseca were in critical condition at Lutheran, police said.

The party had started as a celebration of a girl's fifth birthday, but the bash began to attract a more adult crowd as the night went on, witnesses said.

A black Honda sedan, its windows blown out by bullets, sat on the gritty block near the Sea Rise II housing development as NYPD detectives tried to determine what triggered the shooting.